Insulator



Aug. 24 1926. 1,596,931

B.. P. JoYcE INSULATOR Filed July 18, A192111 PJOy Patented Aug. 24, 1926.

UNITED STATES BRYAN P. JOYCE, F DAVENPORT, IOWA.

INSULATOR.

Application led July 18, 1924. Serial No. 726,751.

The subject of this invention is an insu-V lator intended, primarily, for use in string.- ing the antenna of a radio outfit in the room of a house.

When erecting an interior antenna the picture rod or molding usually found on the wall of a room provides an ideal support from which the wires may be hung, and my invention was devised to permit wires to be so hung without injury to the molding and in an easy and efficacious manner and for this purpose I have provided a clip adapted to grasp the molding, so formed that it will not slip longitudinally on the molding and carrying an insulator which is in engagement with the wire.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel arrangement and combination of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed with- '25 out departing from the spirit of the .invention. f

A practical embodiment `of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein f Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of an insulator constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, shown in place on a picture molding; Fig. 3 is a rear elevation; and

Fig. 4 .is a detailed View in longitudinal secion of the bushing of insulating materia Referring to the drawing by numerals of reference:

In carrying out my invent-ion I provide a clip 1 of resilient materialbent to suitable form for engagement with a picture molding, the upper end 2 cut or scalloped to provide prongs which will engage the molding and prevent the clip from sliding longitudinally thereof and the lower end 3 bent at an angle to take under the lower edge of the molding', as seen most clearly in Fig. 2. Between its ends I prefer to bend the clip into a loop 4.- adapted to receive a bushing 5 of insulating material through which the wire may be passed.

While I have shown and described a preferred method of securing the bushing in the clip it is understood that I do notintend thereby to limit myself to this particular method of connecting the insulator as numerous other ways of attaching the same to the clip will readily occur to those skilled 50 in the art.

l. An insulator, embodying a resilient clip bent to engage a picture molding, said clip formed with prongs at its upper end and having its lower end bent at an angle to take under the lower edge of the molding, a loop formed in the clip between the ends thereof and a bushing of insulating material secured in the loop. 70

2. An insulator, embodying a resilent clip bent to engage a picture molding, a loop formed on the clip between its ends and a bushing of insulating material held in the loop.

3. An insulator, embodying a resilient clip bent to engage a picture molding, aloop formed on the clip and a tubular insulator held in the loop.

4. An insulator, embodying a strip of resilient metal bent upon itself to form a? loop, the ends of the strip then bent toward each other to form resilient gripping members by which the insulator may be hung and a tubular insulator in the loop.

BRYAN P. JOYCE. 

